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Tracing Ancient Roots: How Iron Age Britain Centered on Women

Anthropology.net

What we’ve found, however, suggests a sophisticated society where maternal ancestry shaped group identity.” ” The avoidance of close inbreeding and the occurrence of marriages between distant family branches suggest that the Durotriges had a deep awareness of their ancestry.

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To Create Safer Spaces for Students, Teachers of Color Must Reckon With Our Settler Identity

ED Surge

While 21% of teachers in Hawai’i are Japanese, only 10% have Native Hawaiian ancestry. The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government.

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Migration is here to stay

Living Geography

It’s a bureaucratic tool of governance for an arbitrarily defined landmass; an artifice made convincing through emotive storytelling. We can all claim ancestry from across the world. The state is an invention.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

A coup backed by the US government and conducted by Sanford Dole resulted in Queen Liliuokalani’s deposal, according to smithsonianmag.com. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II. Unfortunately, she was also Hawaii’s last sovereign ruler. Inouye served in the U.S.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. When her middle school students asked, “Why do we need to learn about American government in the seventh grade?”

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

In 1870, students with Asian ancestry were officially allowed in any school, but often weren’t welcome in them, leaving most Asian American kids to learn in community-run and missionary schools. San Francisco segregated its schools from its earliest days. She’d also need charter school enrollment to stop increasing.

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Norway law decrees: Let childhood be childhood

The Hechinger Report

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. million people , about 82 percent of whom are of Norwegian ancestry, across a space roughly the size of Montana. That’s our ‘Capitol Hill,’” Ullmann explained.

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